Schwarzenegger Allegations Surface (Again)

Remember in 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for governor, how a bunch of women came forward saying he’d groped them and otherwise behaved in a matter unbecoming of a public figure (or a decent human being)? Turns out they may not have been Democrat shills after all. Hunh.

I was living in California at the time and remember being quite surprised that the allegations were so easily and effectively swept under the rug. Even if half of the claims were true, what kind of behavior was that for the leader of America’s most populous state? I wondered why it didn’t bother the people voting for him.

In any case, as we all know, he won. Twice. And most of those women were never heard from again… until now. It seems that the whole secret-lovechild-with-the-housekeeper thing did more than ruin the Governator’s marriage. As a recent post on Jezebel reminds us, the affair with his domestic helper may have been consensual, but that appears to be the exception.

Meanwhile, California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman is calling for an investigation into whether Schwarzenegger used government funds to pay off his maid/lover. “During Arnold’s campaign when women came forward and raised issues about his sexual advances and activities he and his minions denied them vociferously and actually accused the women who came forward of being liars and manipulators,” said Bauman, “What a shock that it was we Californians who were lied to and manipulated by Arnold.”

And while this may seem like a nice bit of publicity for one Democratic Chair, it seems to have the ring of truth to it, at least according to this statement from a hotel security officer, who claims to have repeatedly seen Schwarzenegger using government vehicles to transport his mistresses to and from his hotel suite.

It’s hard to know if this scandal will quietly disappear as these things tend to do, but at least those of us who suspected this guy wasn’t on the level can feel slightly vindicated. Even so, it’s not a very satisfying feeling.

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